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Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1933 movie virtually created, certainly established for all time the clichés of the backstage musical genre. Despite its great, venerable age, 42nd Street is still faster, funnier and brighter – and simply just […]
Director James Whale’s 1936 movie is the superb second version of the classic Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical, based on Edna Ferber’s novel about the lives and loves of Mississippi river folk at the turn-of-the-last-century. […]
Director Thornton Freeland’s fun and sometimes still thrilling 1933 musical Flying Down to Rio is famous now, if at all, as the first teaming of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in what turned out to […]
Director Walter Hill’s fresh and original 1986 drama stars Ralph Macchio, who is extremely winsome as Eugene Martone, a bright-eyed and extraordinarily talented classical guitar musician who dreams of being a famous blues guitarist. While […]
The bells are certainly ringing for director Busby Berkeley’s rousing 1942 MGM patriotic and romantic musical that pairs Judy Garland with Gene Kelly for the first time and also stars George Murphy as fellow hoofer […]
The entertaining musical film White Christmas was 1954’s most successful film and is now arguably the most famous Christmas movie of them all. Director Michael Curtiz’s entertaining 1954 musical White Christmas is a remake […]
For his first film as director in 1969, Richard Attenborough chooses an ambitious project – to make a movie version of producer-writer Joan Littlewood’s Sixties London Theatre Royal Stratford stage production. It won the […]